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November 20, 2009 - 06:00 am

On Nuclear Disarmament for Iowa

By paul deaton

On Nuclear Disarmament for Iowa

by Paul Deaton

When Dr. Helen Caldicott moved from Australia to the United States, she became what Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy called, “the First Lady of the Nuclear Freeze Movement in the 1980s.” Less well known is that Dr. Caldicott traveled around Iowa with Tom Harkin during his first campaign for election to the United States Senate in 1984, so she has an Iowa connection. When speaking in Iowa and elsewhere, her tactic was to scare the daylights out of her audience with a graphic description of the medical consequences of nuclear war. At times, she would leave the audience in tears and then recruit them to the cause.

October 30, 2009 - 05:00 am

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Learning from the 1999 Vote on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Part 3

By paul deaton

Learning from the 1999 Vote on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Part 3

by Daryl Kimball

This article is re-printed with permission of the author.

Opposition Tinged With Regret

Even as they prepared to vote against the CTBT, many Republicans were clearly disturbed by the politically charged nature of the debate and frustrated with the situation presented to them by the leadership.

As Hagel observed on the opening morning of the Senate floor debate, “We are trapped in a political swamp as we attempt to compress a very important debate on a very important issue. My goodness, is that any way to responsibly deal with what may, in fact, be the most critical and important vote any of us in this chamber ever make? It is not.

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On Nuclear Disarmament for Iowa

Learning from the 1999 Vote on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Part 3